Congratulations to the below staff on their appointments:
Partner
Jacqueline Hughes
Jacqueline commenced employment with Turner Freeman as a Law Graduate in August 2017. She was admitted as a lawyer in Queensland in October 2017. Jacqueline has worked as a Lawyer, Associate and Senior Associate in both our Ipswich and Brisbane offices in both general personal injury and more recently as a dedicated dust diseases lawyer within the Brisbane Dust Diseases Group under the mentorship of Thady Blundell. Jacqueline has relocated to Sydney and will commence work at the Parramatta office in her new role within the Parramatta Dust Diseases Litigation Practice Group from Monday 4 July.
Emma Jahnke
Emma commenced working in the Brisbane Dust Diseases Group in January 2015. She was admitted as a Lawyer in Queensland in July 2015. She has since worked with us a Lawyer, Associate and Senior Associate within the Brisbane Dust Diseases Practice Group under the mentorship of Thady Blundell.
Luke Power
Luke started at the Parramatta office as a Law Clerk in February 2015. He has worked here as junior Lawyer, Associate and more recently Senior Associate in the General Personal Injury Litigation Practice Group under the mentorship of Richard Dababneh.
Senior Associate
Elisha Parker
Elisha has been with the Firm since June 2002, commencing as the receptionist in our Brisbane office. She studied, started a family, worked part time and remotely from an isolated cattle station in central Queensland before relocating to Bundaberg from where she has worked as a full time dust diseases lawyer since 2021. Apart from her various legal duties she has outstanding external directorships with AgForce Cattle Ltd, Beef Australia Ltd and the National Broadband Network Company.
Associate
Sophie Perkins
Sophie started with the Firm in our Adelaide Office in April 2017 as a Law Clerk. She was admitted to practice in May 2020 and has worked a as solicitor within our General Personal Injury Practice Group in Adelaide since that time.
Angela Italiano
Angela started with the Firm in our Perth office as a part time Legal Clerk in March 2018. She was admitted to practice in January 2020 and has worked as a Lawyer within our General Personal Injury Practice Group in our Perth since that time.
Karla Macpherson
Karla commenced working with the Firm at our Varsity Lakes office on the Gold Coast in May 2020 as a Graduate Lawyer. Since that time she has specialised in a general personal injury litigation under the mentorship of Ciaran Ehrich.
Special Counsel
Wayne McStay
Wayne joined the Firm on 8 July 2002. He was appointed a Partner on 1 July 2006 and he has been the Branch Manager at Maroochydore for many years. He joined the Capital Partnership on 1 July 2018 and has served as a Capital Partner and as a Member of the Turner Freeman Board since that date. He will continue with the Firm in a new role, as Special Counsel, until 30 September 2022 when he will retire from the Firm.